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Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA), reporting (October 2, 2011) about the 5th International Conference on the Palestinian Intifada in Tehran, described the conference as “including participation of parliamentary delegations including several speakers, leading political figures and scholars from 50 Islamic

The State Department’s authorization of a $5.3 billion Taiwanese bid to upgrade their 145 F-16A/B Block 25 fighters, instead of adding 66 new F-16C/D Block 52 planes as the ROC had originally requested, is the big defense news of the

From Defense News: Officials oversee destruction of Libyan missiles The NTC [ Libya’s National Transitional Council] estimates that almost 5,000 SAM-7s from Gadhafi’s stockpiles are still unaccounted for – raising concerns that the missiles could fall into the wrong hands

From Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid: In a major blow to Al-Jazeera’s drive for acceptance and respectability in the West, the government of Israel says that one of the channel’s correspondents has confessed to acting as an agent of the

President Obama, no doubt, would like us all to believe that the government can do things better than the private sector. He obviously has not visited Philadelphia or the Hartford, Connecticut area this past week, cities that stood in the

When President Obama announced his jobs plan back at the beginning of September, he focused almost exclusively on what the government could do for Americans. He mentioned thousands of “shovel ready” projects that needed the strong arms and constitutions of

The State Department’s authorization of a $5.3 billion Taiwanese bid to upgrade their 145 F-16A/B Block 25 fighters, instead of adding 66 new F-16C/D Block 52 planes as the ROC had originally requested, is the big defense news of the

The fruit of our “compassionate support” for the “oppressed” Islamic peoples of the world is now starting to show. In the past two weeks, both the United States and France have reached out to the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC)

France’s Sarkosy may find it perfectly swell that an “al Qaeda asset,” Adbelhakim Belhadj, is commander of rebel forces in Tripoli, a story gradually seeping into MSM consciousness. According to the Asia Times’ Pepe Escobar, however, Belhadj, founder and “emir”

August 10, 2011, President Obama hosted his third annual Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan at the White House. Neil Munro of the Daily Caller noted that the invite list was much shorter than previous years and had been scrubbed of several

The following is a deeply disturbing report from senior Afghan journalist Musa Khan Jalalzai as part of an investigation that appeared in Daily Outlook Afghanistan. Translation of these excerpts is provided by MEMRI. “A shameless business of teenage rape or

Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the man who twice upheld death sentences in the Bulgarian nurses show trial and is poised to lead post-Qaddafi Libya. But don’t worry: The State Department says he’s a refomer. — While making a correction in my

From Bloomberg: SA-7s: We better find them before Al Qaeda does… The U.S. plans to deploy two contractors to Libya with the exclusive job of tracking down and destroying shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles before they fall into the hands of terrorists.

The Nuba people of Sudan’s Southern Kardofan region are being systematically exterminated in the midst of a developing genocide described as “the world’s next Rwanda.” Several issue-area experts testified before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee today, asserting that Sudanese military

The International Islamic News Agency (never heard of it before; get used to it a la “Gallup Abu Dhabi”) reported on August 1, which, as the dateline notes, is also Ramadan 1 (or vice versa): JEDDAH, Ramadan 1/Aug 1 (IINA)-During

At this writing, many details of the debt ceiling deal wrangled out over the weekend remain fuzzy. One thing is clear, unfortunately: The national security of the United States is going to suffer greatly. That will be so no matter

[Editor’s Note: Script reviews of upcoming projects have been around for as long as there’s been an Internet. Therefore it’s no secret that a film can evolve into something quite different from its screenplay. Please keep in mind that this

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) have focused on the Justice Department in their investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, in which U.S. officials deliberately sold American guns to Mexican criminals that were later used to kill

On June 30th 2011 the US administration confirmed its recognition of the Muslim Brotherhood as an entity that we can negotiate with in Egypt. In Libya, they are our official allies in the effort to unseat Gadhafi from power. Over

From the New York Post: Anthony Weiner’s wife is taking time off from her senior job with the State Department — as well as time off from the randy former representative, The Post has learned. While Weiner, 46, heads to

The news from Addis Ababa on June 28, 2011, was the signing of a “Framework Agreement” between the National Congress Party (NCP) Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) on political partnership, and political and security arrangements

His name is Alec Ross and he is Hillary Clinton’s senior adviser for innovation at the U.S. State Department. While speaking at a summit in London, Ross made the provocative statement that social network technology is the “Che Guevara of

Donations to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) no longer are tax deductible after the organization was among 275,000 tax-exempt organizations purged earlier this month by the Internal Revenue Service. The groups failed to file required annual reports, known as

In the past ten years, we have lost the lives of many of our best and brightest fighting this war. Families have been torn apart, children no longer have the opportunity to grow up with a mommy or daddy, and

President Obama gave Bibi Netanyahu an ultimatum on renewing negotiations with the Palestinians, according to reports cited by Israel Radio Sunday morning. According to the ultimatum, Netanyahu has to decide within a month whether he agrees to accept President Barack

Well into the slaughter in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains, the White House, State Department, and mainstream media finally got around to writing about what is taking place (only they always refer to it as South Kordofan, the Arab colonizers’ name for

From the New York Times: The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications

The far left Palin-hating cranks at The Guardian reported this week that aides to Margaret Thatcher told them, “Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin… That would be belittling for Margaret – Sarah Palin is nuts.” We all knew

For some reason, some liberals in Hollywood like to give dictators the benefit of the doubt. Their five-decade support for Fidel Castro’s iron rule over 11 million voiceless Cubans is inexplicable. Their “Blame America First” philosophy has brought them into

One of the dirty secrets about Western trade with enemy states like Iran is that the Western companies trading with them may also wittingly or unwittingly serve as espionage assets for their home country or for other Western countries. Consider

President Obama’s speech on the Middle East at the State Department last week, his icy glares at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office last Friday, his address before the AIPAC conference on Sunday, and his subsequent press

Obama embarrassed himself (and our nation) once again, this time while toasting The Queen of England. Stranded at a former state dinner setting without his teleprompter, Obama tried to turn a toast into a speech with note cards, talking over

We are hearing a great deal about a budding “Democracy movement” spreading throughout the Middle East. Many are calling it an “Arab Spring.” The belief is that after centuries of totalitarian oppression, the Arab street is suddenly pining for more

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Pending US existing home sales drop 12% In a new shock to economists, the number of Americans signing contracts to buy previously owned homes plunged 11.6% in April, far more than the 1% they

Barack Obama’s tenure as Commander-in-Chief has not exactly been characterized by success. What comes next, however, may make his record to date look like the good old days. To be sure, on his watch, an extraordinary intelligence-special forces team liquidated